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Mr Buttermilk's Diary: Raging Against The Light
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013. Raging Against The Light. And how bulbs fitted lamps, whereas now you might not be able to fit the base of the bulb into the opening in your old lamps. It used to be a fiat lux moment when you turned on a light switch: illumination was up and running in a fraction of second. The bulb whose packaging is shown here has a start-up time of less than 30 seconds (well, to help you get over that shock, they call it 'Quick-start'). Posted by Chris Maslanka. How many have been here before.
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Mr Buttermilk's Diary: Ah!—the caducity of time...
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012. 8212;the caducity of time. Of course most things fall apart eventually, but in my experience they crumble in clusters. When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. 8212; as the bard has it. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride around in fours, and the plagues of Egypt visit in sevens, so breakages. 8212; a phenomenon admittedly on a far smaller scale. 8212; might well be susceptible to clustering. Or would I be spoilt for choice? Replacement, which I took as a...
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Mr Buttermilk's Diary
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Tuesday, 7 August 2012. Studying Latin at school was stimulating. Structure evokes creativity, exploration and play, just as the rules of tennis or chess make you itch to see what is possible. We also decided that the illustrations of the Cambridge Latin Course were not good, but could be much improved if they were fitted with better captions, and we were best placed to provide them. In this unintended way our thwarted creativity found natural if disrespectful expression. At last a use for Messalina's.
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Mr Buttermilk's Diary: Passing through
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Saturday, 12 January 2013. It is the 150th anniversary of the London tube, a section of which constitutes the first subterranean railway in the world. I am a fan of tubes, including the. And, more recently, the. The idea of a nether world beneath the bustling of the streets above reminds me of Greek myth; the way you enter by one hole and pop up somewhere else reminds me of the topological shortcuts implicit in the Einstein-Rosen bridge. No wonder the fares are astronomical. Posted by Chris Maslanka.
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Roundness » 2012 » March
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This article and round puzzle are the first in a series by Chris Maslanka. How to make the world go round…. Site design by Studio Chirpy.
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Pedanticus Speaks: Reign Ends — Here Comes the Son!
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Friday, 1 February 2013. Reign Ends — Here Comes the Son! Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, the oldest reigning Dutch monarch, announced her abdication yesterday.- [Guardian 29/01/2013, p 14]. How many reigning monarchs do they have, then? Sent in by Sam Howison. This conflates two conflicting ideas. The oldest reigning Dutch monarch. From the Greek sole. In the phrase the Dutch monarch. Correctly asserts this singularity. But the adjectival phrase oldest reigning. Through the word oldest. Queen Beatrix,...
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Pedanticus Speaks: Shome Mishtakes
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Wednesday, 3 April 2013. It's easy to make a mistake but not always so obvious what you should have said in the first place. In some cases the sentence can be put into beautiful English with just a little rearrangement. So don't just sit there passively reading this. Take an active part by rendering these sentences into trouble-free English! He learned to make a trombone from his uncle.". Stephen Evans, From Our Foreign Correspondent BBC Radio 4 11:55; 11/03/2013. Expert* on network radio.
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Mr Buttermilk's Diary: You Might Have Shaved First!
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Sunday, 17 February 2013. You Might Have Shaved First! Product awaiting development: a "spray on" designer stubble. At present you have to rub your chin and upper lip with pritstick and then dust your face with clippings from an electric shaver. To blow away excess hair dust, stand in a draught or use an electric hair-dryer. If you win the Dyson advertised on the packaging of the kitchen roll advertised you could put it on blow. Further exercise: Close your eyes and see whether you can think even bigger!
